Caterpillar will showcase what it imagines for the next 100 years by launching its centennial celebrations at CES 2025
Caterpillar will launch its 100th anniversary celebrations in early January at CES 2025, providing visitors with the chance to reflect on the global company’s impact over the last century, as well as visualising what’s in store for the future.
Held at the Las Vegas Convention Centre, Caterpillar’s CES 2025 exhibit will feature a combination of technologies and expertise designed to highlight some of the ways the company is evolving with customers through the energy transition.
To better reflect this, Caterpillar’s exhibit will feature the slogan ‘The Next 100 Years: Experience What’s Possible’.
“Caterpillar was founded in 1925 with an innovative spirit, aimed at helping our customers overcome practical problems and challenges,” senior vice president of Caterpillar’s electrification and energy solutions division Rob Hoenes says.
“Over the past 100 years, the company has built on a revolutionary legacy – creating industry-leading products, technologies, services and solutions.”
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Taking centre stage at the Caterpillar exhibit will be a 25-tonne Cat 972 wheel loader featuring a technical demonstrator extended range electrified machine hybrid retrofit.
Cat says the demonstrator maintains or exceeds the performance of a similar diesel machine and does not require DC charging. The retrofit could eliminate the need for additional electrical infrastructure at job sites.
“What sets this demonstrator apart from other Cat battery electric machines is an additional power source,” vice president and general manager of Caterpillar’s electrification and energy solutions division Rob Janssen says.
“In this case, it’s a conventional diesel generator running AC power to a rectifier, which converts energy from AC to DC. The energy created is used to charge the battery, drive the machine or both.”
Additional key features of the demonstrator:
- Cat machines nearing end-of-life can be rebuilt and repowered in a way that allows them to function as part of a reduced-carbon future
- Can be driven on 100 per cent zero emission battery power for several hours. For extended operation, the machine can operate on hybrid mode with electricity generated from an onboard gen set
- An option for customers looking to lower emissions, but not ready to go all-in on battery electric
- Charges overnight on a regular utility grid connection at 240V.
Visitors to the Cat exhibit will also be able to experience a virtual job site of the future showcasing examples of the infrastructure required to support electrified job sites, varying charging schedules, and the complexities of a job site powered by the full Cat ecosystem.
CES 2025 will run from January 7 through to January 10 at the Las Vegas Convention Centre. Cat’s exhibit will be in the centre’s West Hall, booth #6416.